No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MIRIDAE. 435 



(H. M. Parshley). Male, 10 July, 1915, Atherton, Mo. (C. F. Adams). 

 New York— Males (2) and females (3), i Sept., females (2), 2 Sept., 1915, 

 Batavia (H. H. Knight). Males and females (6), 9 Sept., 1917, Yorktown 

 Heights; females (2), 2 Sept., 1916, Forest Hill, Long Island; Male and 

 females (2), 16 Sept., 1917, Maspeth (C. E. Olsen). Males and females 

 (6), 10 Sept., 1915, Honesdale, Pa. (C. E. Olsen). 



*P. politus var. pallidicornis Knight, new variety. 



Structurally not differing materially from the typical politus but 

 the unusual color combination makes it desirable to name this 

 variety for reference in the key. Antennae pale, segment i and 

 base of ii black ; cuneus with only a pale lunule at base like the 

 typical form; membrane uniformly fuscous, narrowly pale 

 bordering cuneus and veins. 



Holotype: Male, 27 June, 1920, Ithaca, N. Y. (H. H. Knight) ; author's 

 collection. Allotype : same data as type. Paratypes : Connecticut — Male 

 and female, 20 July, 1916, Guilford (B. H. Walden). Male, 13 July, 1920, 

 North Branford (B. H. Walden). Female, i June, 191 5, South Meriden 

 (H. Johnson). Male, 22 July, 1920, Berrien County, Mich. (R. F. Hussey). 

 Maine — Male, 19 June, male and female, 26 June, 1909, Machias (C. W. 

 Johnson). Male and female, 15 July, 1914, Monmouth (C. A. Frost). 

 Female, 5 July, female, 14 July, 1905, Orono. Massachusetts — Female, 

 8 Aug., 1912, Washington (C. W. Johnson). Minnesota — Males and 

 females (14), 12 July, 1919, Hennepin County (H. H. Knight). New 

 Hampshire— Male, 28 Sept., 1916, Crawfords (H. M. Parshley). Male, 

 24 July, 1915, Glenhouse; male, 3 July, 1915, Hanover (C. W. Johnson). 

 New York — Males and females (18), topotypic. Male, 30 July, 1913, male, 

 24 June, female, 30 June, male, 12 July, females (2), 13 July, 1914, male, 

 27 July, female, 14 Aug., 1915, female, 4 Aug., 1916, Batavia; males (3) 

 and females (2), 27 July, 1916, McLean; female, 22 Aug., 1916, Whiteface 

 Mt. (H. H. Knight). Male, 3 Aug., 1920, Wanakena (C. J, Drake). 

 Ontario — Female, 6 Aug., 191 5, Parry Sound (H. S. Parish). 



Plagiognathus nigronitens Knight, new species. 



SHghtly smaller than politus, the rostrum shorter ; shining black, 

 the cuneus uniformly black like the corium. 



Male: Length 3mm., width 1.2mm. Head: Width .64mm., 

 vertex .33 mm.; black, scarcely paler at vertex. Rostrum, length 

 .91 mm., scarcely attaining hind margins of intermediate coxae. 



Antennae : Segment i, length .22 mm., black ; ii, .78 mm., black, 

 extreme tip pale ; iii, .66 mm., pale ; iv, .45 mm., pale to dusky. 



Pronotum: Length .53 mm., width at base 1.03 mm.; black, 

 clothed with fine, pale yellowish pubescence, a prominent black 

 hair at each anterior angle. Scutellum black, minutely trans- 

 versely rugulose ; sternum black, opaque ; ostiolar peritreme black 

 or only slightly yellowish. 



Hemelytra : Embolar margins very slightly arcuate ; uniformly 

 black, shining, the cuneus not at all paler at basal margin ; clothed 

 with pale yellowish pubescence. Membrane uniformly pale 

 fuscous, a pale triangular spot bordering apex of cuneus ; veins 

 scarcely paler except tip of brachium. 



Legs: Black, femora paler at extreme tips; tibiae yellowish, 

 spines with black spots at base, hind pair becoming infuscated on 



